Word: couriered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually preserve the peace. Negative Promise. "The question that must engage us, caught up as we are in this atomic rat race, is whether the effort which is being made away from destruction is as great and compelling as the effort which impels us toward it," editorialized the Louisville Courier-Journal. Michigan's convalescing Senator Arthur Vandenberg proposed that the President formally notify the United Na tions that the U.S. would abandon the H-bomb project as soon as Russia agreed to a program of international control...
...Berle Notes. From 1925 to April 1938, Chambers had been a Communist, a writer of radical literature, an editor of the Communist Daily Worker. He had also been what was then vaguely known as a Communist courier. Abandoning the party in revulsion and despair, he became a determined enemy of Communism. At that critical moment in history he was alarmed at the presence in the U.S. Government of certain men whom he knew to be Reds. He had made his trip to Washington at the urging of a friend, to pass on a warning to Adolf A. Berle Jr., Assistant...
...Hiss case: "It seems rather horrible to condemn someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt," she said. She was either unaware of, or determined to ignore, the corroborating evidence introduced by the Government to prove the charges of its chief witness, Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier...
...Alger Hiss's first trial had ended in a hung jury. In the second, Judge Goddard had proved more lenient than Judge Samuel Kaufman. He had permitted the defense to bring in a psychiatrist and a psychologist to testify that the Government's star witness, ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was a "psychopathic personality," and allowed the prosecution to produce Hede Massing, ex-wife of Gerhart Eisler (she testified to meeting Hiss as a fellow Communist in Washington...
Point by point Murphy went over the Government's evidence: the notes in Hiss's handwriting which ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers had had in his possession; the stolen documents which were typed on the Hisses' Woodstock typewriter...